Academicians

A school psychologist is asked to assess the effectiveness of three instructional approaches to teaching reading to second grade elementary school children.   The different approaches are whole language, phonic, and blended instruction.  The “Whole Language Approach” is a method of teaching children to read by recognizing words as whole pieces of language. The “phonics approach” ….  Read More

You have been recently hired as a junior analyst by D.M. Pan Real Estate Company. The sales team has tasked you with preparing a report that examines the relationship between the selling price of properties and their size in square feet. You have been provided with a Real Estate County Data document that includes properties ….  Read More

Discussion Assignment:  Let’s consider the phrases at least, at most, less than, more than. Often when we are looking at probabilities, it is phrases like those which are key to translating a word problem into a probabilistic problem.  Consider the following statement: The probability that Mary (spends at least, spends at most, spends less than, ….  Read More

You are in charge of conducting an analysis for your organization to discover if there is a relationship between an employee’s performance rating and the number of sick days they take each year. Your coworker has already collected the data and it is ready for you to analyze. Review the data your coworker collected in ….  Read More

Analysis of Variance A study compared three display panels used by air traffic controllers. Each display panel was tested for four different simulated emergency conditions. Twenty-four highly trained air traffic controllers were used in the study. Two controllers were randomly assigned to each display panel–emergency condition combination. The time (in seconds) required to stabilize the ….  Read More